[PSYC 153] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (94 pages long!)
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Biology: physiology- heart racing, palms sweating. Specific emotions: fear, anger, jealousy, looking at the evolutionary functionality of it, what leads to these emotions, behavioral motivations of that emotion. Motivating you to change your world in some way. How does that link with the emotion. How does that link with the situation that lead to that emotion. Evidence: studies that support or don"t support particular theories that exist out there. Theory: an idea or concept that. And makes predictions: could be alternate explanations. Other theories that could exist for why things happen. Theories are pushed away by alt evidence. Emotion has a lot of conflicting theories. Facts : example: theory: fear motivaes people to flee from threates. When feeling fear people report feelinging motivated to run away fear most often occurs in dangerous situations the body has a particular response when someone feels fear. But: freezing happens- maybe it motivates people avoid threats not just flee.
